Category: Speeches

Baroness Drake – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Drake on 2014-06-12.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to lower the level of fees for access to employment tribunals.

Lord Faulks

The Justice Secretary is committed to reviewing the impact of the introduction of fees in the employment tribunal system. The Ministry of Justice is currently finalising arrangements for the timing and scope of the review to ensure that the impacts can be properly assessed. An announcement will be made when the review begins, and again when it has been completed, setting out the results.

01/11/2022
Margaret Ritchie – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Ritchie on 2014-04-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure the long-term viability of the system for paying benefits into Post Office card accounts under the universal credit programme.

Steve Webb

No decision has been made on the future of the POca but discussions are currently taking place between DWP, Post Office Ltd and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to consider the future needs of customers beyond 2015.

01/11/2022
Lord Alton of Liverpool – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool on 2014-06-12.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will answer the question asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool on 11 June (HL Deb, col 418) about what action is being taken to ensure the safety of those reported to have fled the city of Mosul following its capture by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham.

Baroness Northover

As of 17 June, following the advance of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) –led alliance in Northern Iraq, the UK is providing an initial £3 million of emergency humanitarian assistance to help displaced civilians. Following an assessment of needs on the ground by DFID humanitarian experts who deployed to Erbil last Thursday 12 June, this includes:

(i) – Activation of the UK’s Rapid Response Facility (RRF), which provides emergency support via pre-approved organisations in the event of a humanitarian crisis overseas. This initial package of UK support comprises clean water and sanitation, essential medicine, women-friendly hygiene kits and basic household items, which will be provided from £2 million of RRF funding to NGOs in the region.

(ii) – Protection for vulnerable girls and women through the deployment of dedicated UN safety and welfare teams in key internally displaced person and refugee camp sites and areas, secured through £1 million of funding to the UNHCR.

The UK will continue to monitor the situation closely and we are considering urgently what other assistance we could provide.

01/11/2022
Jim Cunningham – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2014-04-09.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2014, Official Report, column 18W, on employee ownership, for what reason the details of the Exchequer impact of the tax rules for the shares awarded under employee shareholder agreements since 1 September 2013 are not available.

Mr David Gauke

Employers are not required to provide details of any shares awarded under employee shareholder agreements to HM Revenue & Customs until they submit their annual employment-related securities return for 2013-14. No details or estimates of the total value of shares awarded under employee shareholder agreements since 1 September 2013 are currently available.

Estimates of the Exchequer impact of the capital gains tax exemption and the income tax and national insurance treatment of shares awarded under employee shareholder agreements in tax years to 2017-18 can be found at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/tiin/emp-shareholder-status.pdf

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01/11/2022
Baroness King of Bow – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness King of Bow on 2014-06-12.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 6 May (WA 392), with which organisations representing private tenants the Private Rented Sector Task Force has engaged since its establishment.

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

The Private Rented Sector Taskforce work closely with my officials in developing our policies in relation to the private rented sector. Together they engage with a wide range of private sector tenant groups including Shelter, Crisis, Generation Rent and its predecessor the National Private Tenant’s Organisation, the National Union of Students, as well as individual private tenant organisations.

01/11/2022

Graham Evans – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graham Evans on 2014-04-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2014, Official Report, column 114W, on human trafficking: victim support schemes, how many of those referred were (a) men and (b) women, by country; what steps are taken to ensure after the victim exits the shelter into which they have been placed by the Salvation Army they are not re-trafficked or contact their former traffickers; and if she will make a statement.

Karen Bradley

The requested information on the gender of potential victims and the regions in
which they were found in January 2014 was provided in the Answer of 7 April
2014, Official Report, columns 114-5W, on human trafficking: victim support
schemes. However, this data was provided in a number of separate tables. The
information was not withheld and is provided below in an alternative format,
giving the same data broken down by individual case, in one table.

The victim care contract does not require support providers to maintain any
form of formal contact after the recovery and reflection period. However, some
survivors do maintain informal contact with their support provider. All support
providers will work with victims throughout their support period to help them
move on from the service. We are looking at what more we can do to help victims
reintegrate effectively.

Nationality	Gender	Region	Agency Type
Nigerian	Female	South	Self Referral
Lithuanian	Female	South	Police
Vietnamese	Male	East	NGO
Romanian	Female	West Midlands	NGO
Lithuanian	Male	South West	Police
Lithuanian	Male	South West	Police
Albanian	Female	Wales	Self Referral
Bulgarian	Female	South	Police
Polish	Male	West Midlands	GLA
Albanian	Female	Yorkshire	NGO
Nigerian	Female	South	Home Office
Sierra Leonean	Female	South	Home Office
Indian	Male	South East	Home Office
Vietnamese	Female	North West	Home Office
Nigerian	Female	South East	Home Office
Ugandan	Female	South East	Home Office
Vietnamese	Male	South East	Legal Representative
Ghanaian	Male	South	Police
Ghanaian	Male	South	Police
Romanian	Male	West Midlands	Police
Romanian	Male	West Midlands	Police
Romanian	Male	West Midlands	Police
Romanian	Male	West Midlands	Police
Romanian	Male	West Midlands	Police
Togolese	Female	East	Police
Nigerian	Female	South East	Local Authority
Czech	Male	Yorkshire	NGO
Albanian	Female	South East	Home Office
Ugandan	Female	East	Self Referral
Indian	Female	South East	Home Office
Albanian	Female	South East	Home Office
Albanian	Female	Not Known	Home Office
Albanian	Female	South	Police
Vietnamese	Female	Not Known	Home Office
Albanian	Female	South	Home Office
Slovakian	Male	Yorkshire	Local Authority
Slovakian	Female	Yorkshire	Local Authority
Nigerian	Female	South	Other
Moroccan	Female	West Midlands	Home Office
Cameroonian	Male	North East	Other
Not known	Female	South	Home Office
Nigerian	Female	Not Known	Home Office
Chinese	Male	West Midlands	NGO
Hungarian	Male	Yorkshire	NGO
Polish	Male	Yorkshire	Police
Nigerian	Female	South	NGO
Albanian	Female	Yorkshire	Home Office
Lithuanian	Male	South West	Police
Romanian	Female	West Midlands	Police
Czech	Male	North West	Other
Sri Lankan	Female	South	Police
Pakistani	Male	Yorkshire	Home Office
Vietnamese	Male	South	Legal Representative
Romanian	Female	South	Other
Albanian	Female	South	Home Office
Albanian	Female	Yorkshire	Home Office
Nigerian	Female	South	NGO
Albanian	Female	West Midlands	NGO
Kenyan	Female	East	Home Office
Hungarian	Female	South East	Police
Slovakian	Male	Yorkshire	Local Authority
Slovakian	Female	Yorkshire	Local Authority
Kenyan	Female	South	Self Referral
Cameroonian	Female	North West	NGO
Albanian	Female	South	Police
Slovakian	Female	West Midlands	Police
Albanian	Male	South East	Police
Iranian	Male	South	NGO
Nigerian	Female	Yorkshire	Home Office
Albanian	Female	Yorkshire	Home Office
Albanian	Female	Yorkshire	Home Office
Albanian	Female	Yorkshire	Home Office
Albanian	Female	South	Home Office
Albanian	Female	South East	Other
Czech	Female	South West	NGO
Bulgarian	Male	South West	Police
Hungarian	Male	South	NGO
Albanian	Female	South	Home Office
Albanian	Female	South	NGO
Nigerian	Female	Wales	Home Office
Polish	Male	Yorkshire	Police
Ugandan	Female	South	Legal Representative
Vietnamese	Male	East Midlands	Legal Representative
Slovakian	Male	Yorkshire	Police
Slovakian	Female	Yorkshire	Police
Albanian	Female	South	Legal Representative
Ethiopian	Female	South	NGO
Albanian	Female	South	NGO
Iraqi	Female	East Midlands	NGO
Albanian	Female	Yorkshire	NGO

01/11/2022

Alison Seabeck – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison Seabeck on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many parliamentary questions tabled to his Department in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.

Mr Francis Maude

One Parliamentary Question, which was tabled the day before prorogation, did not receive a substantive answer

01/11/2022
Mark Tami – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Tami on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Energy and Climate Change about the local socioeconomic effects of the Magnox nuclear sites before the award of the decommissioning contract on 31 March 2014; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Fallon

This Department has not had any discussion with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) about the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) competition to secure a new Parent Body Organisation for Magnox Ltd and Research Sites Restoration Ltd. The NDA ran the competition in strict accordance with UK and EU procurement regulations. Oversight and governance of the process was provided by the NDA’s Competition Programme Board. The Government is represented by the Shareholder Executive (on behalf of DECC), HM Treasury and Infrastructure UK.

01/11/2022
Harriet Harman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Harriet Harman on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the amount of philanthropic giving to arts and heritage organisations in each region and constituent part of the UK; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Edward Vaizey

In 2011/12, according to Arts & Business, overall philanthropic giving to the cultural sector grew by 7.6% on the previous year to £660.5 million. The breakdown of this total shows £536 million of private investment in culture in London and £125 million in the non-London English regions. Although London is always likely to attract a greater proportion of philanthropic giving, there are many examples of arts organisations successfully encouraging philanthropy and private investment across the country. DCMS has been working closely with Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and the cultural sector, through the £100 million Catalyst scheme, to help improve fundraising capacity and ensure organisations have the skills required to cultivate philanthropy.

01/11/2022
Harriet Harman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Harriet Harman on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many children were aged under five in (a) London and (b) each London borough in each of the last five years.

Mr Nick Hurd

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

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